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The knife and the butterfly

by Ashley Hope Pérez

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After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.

Salvadoran AmericansJuvenile delinquencyGangsJuvenile detention homesFictionChildren's fictionJuvenile delinquency, fictionGangs, fictionReformatories